The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-11-18
lamar and the BcnCh.

ON the supreme bench. Northern .
nqpors and writers are discussing the .
matter with all the virulency which .
distinguished the sectional discus
-ions for the first ten years sitter the
war closed Every shade and shadow
of objection has been raised, and the
bloody shirt has been Haunted until It
makes one sick to think how many
fools there are left, and who did not
find grave while bloody graves were
being opened 80 plentifulIy on the
hither side of Mason and Dickson'7
famed liue. We believe the plan gen
orally settled upon at last to beat the
president and Mr.. Lamar Is a sena-
torlal rel elton OF the nomination
should it be once determined upon
We can hardly believe the republican
senators are Cil piece of cloth with
no better fibre than this would indi-
cate. l. IL possible that a spite so
pltiful still holds sway in the breasts
of men who -tsnd only one step re
moved from the highest place in the
service of the uation; We will never
believe it until we see it done. Most
of the senat ors are lawyers and emf
nent ones ut that They know Mat the
distinguished Mis-issipian is a ripe
scholar, a man learned i'll the deeper
and more far reaching philosophics
of our American system of iurispru-
| dcncc As we'll as the constitutional
| base and warrant for all. They know
too that Senator Lamar is Of the very
highest type Of our American man
| hood. Brave, chlvalrous, pure, fear
| loss and iucorruptible. There Is not
now. neither has there ever been on
the supreme bench of the United
| States. a more exalted character
| There may have been more profound
| lawyers, but never y better or purer
mhn. And now when we are told
that this sort of man is to be rejec-
ted by the senate upon mere sectional
prejudiccs we refuse TO believe it.
surely the great men who sit in the
senate rise above the position that
Lamar is responsible for the war, or
that having had the misfortune of
southern birth, he is therefore untitled
for place such AZ this
There is another consideration, and
powerful one it is too. Although it
is somewhat grovelliug and we
beg pardon for mentioning it.
There is not a single senator but who
will ask some favor of the president
this winter-favor for himself per-
sonally or some friend or valued con-
stituent, and the consideration that
this sort of flying in the face of his
excellency would be bad mental
preparation for the granting, will re-
strain them. II they could faster some
great crime upon Lamar. If they
could find some mental or moral or
any sort of personal objection it
might be made to work. But they
cannot do that There is no blotch
on his cscutcheon. There is not in all
the history of the man single mem
DRY of wrong doing of any kind. His
lite has been blsmeless and pure.
His record of manly acts,is perfect and
an honor to his race. His patriotism
is lofty aud unseltish. His mind is
broad and national in its cast. The re
is no single objection that we could |
conjure up and therefore just why
twenty two years after the close of |
the war sectional objection shoull !
be sprung, we fail to see.
The bloody shirt has dropped out of
existence rs political power.
1t is rolled up and laid away, and now
to drag it out in such n way would be
to invite defeat. Nay, more than
that-to close the door to sll hope OF
success for the republican party
next year. While dealing Lamar the
coup de grace" the republican senate
would be rendering the chances OF
victory next fall utterly
We don't believe the
will do this, We don't be-
ieve they dare attempt it. We be-
ieye further that II they did, their
'wn consciencos would 90 back on
hem with such an emphasis that
t would ring in their ears for ever
nd day.
OF course tins premature discuss
ion is had to prevent in this way the
announcement of such appointments
nd should Mr., Cleveland listen 10
{, we believe ne would b. compelled
o listen to very decided southern
egative when his name i, proposed ,
II the next LatiOn6I Democratic con-